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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Orthography
Mastery level
Chall's Stage 3
Cedilla
2. Feeling through fingertips
Components of Reading Instruction
Progress Monitoring
Tactile
Accuracy
3. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Syntax
Percentile/ percentile rank
Mastery level
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
4. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Diphthong
Grapheme
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
5. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonology
Macron
6. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Learners
Whole Language
Receptive language
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
7. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Anglo Saxon
Ability
Fluency
Battery
8. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Attention
Syllable
Diagnostic tests
Mastery level
9. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Texas Education Code 38.003
VV
Visual Processing
Accommodation
10. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Latin layer of language
Oral Language
VV
Composite Score
11. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Towre
Social language
Stanine Scores
12. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Base Word
RTI
Sound Symbol Association
Affix
13. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Sound Symbol Association
Keith Stanovich
Latin layer of language
14. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Linguistic Method
Letter naming Chart
15. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Curriculum referenced tests
Mathew Effect
Criterion-Referenced Test
NICHD
16. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Accuracy
Cognition
Phonology
17. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Base Word
Texas Education Code 38.003
Academic Achievement Tests
Vr
18. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phoneme
Chall's Stage 4
IDEA
Phonics
19. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Modification
Syntax
Closed Syllable
Phonemic Awareness
20. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Great Vowel Shift
Auditory Processing
Phonemic Awareness
Quadrigraph
21. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
WIATII
Ability
Grade equivalents
MSL
22. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Battery
Consonant Digraph
Standard Scores
Mastery level
23. Final stable syllable
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24. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Standard deviation
Grapheme
VV
25. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Auditory Learners
Rate
Samuel T. Orton
26. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.
The Norman Conquest
Closed Syllable
Accommodation
Percentile/ percentile rank
27. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Morpheme
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
VC
28. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness
James Hinshelwood
Chall's Stage 4
Percentile
The Norman Conquest
29. Multisensory Structured Language
Whole Language
Samuel T. Orton
MSL
Letter naming Chart
30. State Board of Eduation
MSLE
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
SBOE
Modification
31. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Attention
Expressive language
Mastery level
MSLE
32. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Adolf Kusmaul
Percentile/ percentile rank
Letter naming Chart
Raw score
33. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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34. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Trigraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Linguistic Method
35. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Morpheme
Academic Achievement Tests
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
36. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Syntax
Macron
Visual Learners
The Norman Conquest
37. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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38. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Affix
[-'le
Modification
39. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Mastery level
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Breve
40. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Matthew Effect
Open Syllable
Comprehension
Impulsivity
41. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Anna Gillingham
Accent
Phonological Awareness
Letter naming Chart
42. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
MSLE
Grapheme
V >
43. Whole body learning
Tactile
Kinesthetic
Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
44. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Receptive language
Great Vowel Shift
Pre-English
45. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Breve
Prefix
Comprehension
VAKT
46. Open syllable
Diagnostic tests
Phonological Awareness
V >
Social language
47. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Matthew Effect
Vr
Rate
48. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Norm-Referenced Test
Semantics
ADHD
Kinesthetic
49. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Phonology
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Quadrigraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
50. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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